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Yes! 80 customers during the week. Then 102 on the weekend, from 1960 to 1964 in New Britain. All of Belden Street to the end by East Side park then the lower part of Linden all the way up to East Street. Up at 4 a.m., then everything had to be done no later than 5:30 a.m. People wanted their paper before work! The paper was 7 cents. You went out and collected on Friday nights around dinner or (supper, whatever you called it)! That's when you'd catch people home. Didn't matter if it was raining or snowing. Those papers had to deliver. Worst part was when a tragedy happened. Like November 1963. The horrific headlines, "KENNEDY...

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